Israel-Iran ceasefire as it happened: Trump says both Israel and Iran violated ceasefire terms; Hamas to hold ‘indirect’ talks with Israel on Gaza ceasefire

We’ve seen some extraordinary developments today, in what was the 12th day of the Israel-Iran conflict.

Thank you for joining us as we continued our live coverage. We’ll be back in the morning with more as the world waits to see whether this ceasefire will hold.

Here’s a quick overview of the latest developments:

• US President Donald Trump unleashed a tirade against both Israel and Iran, saying he was particularly unhappy with the former, and neither country “know what the f--- they’re doing”.
• Israel, soon after announcing it agreed to the ceasefire, claimed Iran violated the truce with intercepted missile strikes. Iran rejected this claim.
• Trump said that Israel was “not going to attack Iran” in retaliation, before reports circulated Israel struck a sole Iranian radar site during the ceasefire.
• Before both sides were accused of breaching the agreement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had achieved its war goals, including removing the threat of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
• An earlier Iranian missile strike on an apartment block in southern Israel killed four people and left more than 20 people injured.
• Nine people were also killed in Israeli strikes on residential buildings in the northern Iranian province of Gilan before the ceasefire came into effect, according to Reuters.
• In Gaza, Israeli forces and drones opened fire towards hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks, killing at least 25 people, Palestinian witnesses and hospitals said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says he held off on a tougher strike against Iran after speaking to US President Donald Trump.

Netanyahu’s office says Israel struck an Iranian radar in response to the Iranian missile attack on Tuesday.

“Following President Trump’s conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel refrained from additional attacks,” Netanyahu’s office says.

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That’s a wrap on today’s news. We will be back soon with more live coverage of the conflict, so please join us then.

US President Donald Trump said he does not want to see “regime change” in Iran, saying it would lead to chaos.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to a NATO summit, Trump said Iran is not going to have a nuclear weapon and that Russian President Vladimir Putin had called him and offered to help with Iran.

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One to depart for the 2025 NATO Summit.Credit: Getty Images

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Despite US President Donald Trump’s claims Israel would not attack Iran in retaliation for purportedly breaching the ceasefire agreement, reports are circulating the country did attack a single site in Iran, violating the truce.

Israeli and Iranian media sources reported the Israeli Air Force struck one Iranian radar site, north of Tehran, in response to missiles allegedly launched by Iran during the ceasefire.

Trump, in a post on Truth Social earlier, said Israel would perform a “friendly ‘plane wave’” to Iran, and nobody would be hurt, before Israeli planes “turned around”.

In a third post to Truth Social this past hour, US President Donald Trump said: “IRAN WILL NEVER REBUILD THEIR NUCLEAR FACILITIES!”

The conflict, now in its 12th day, began with Israel targeting Iranian nuclear and military sites, saying it could not allow Tehran to develop atomic weapons – and that it feared the Islamic republic was close. Iran has long maintained that its program is peaceful.

Emergency responders work at a building where at least four people died in a missile strike on June 24 in Beersheba, Israel. Credit: Getty Images

Many worried the war might widen after the US joined the attacks by dropping bunker-buster bombs at the weekend, and Israel expanded the kinds of targets it was hitting.

But after Tehran launched a limited retaliatory strike on a US military base in Qatar on Monday, Trump announced the ceasefire.

Israel and Iran accepted the agreement, but it is now unclear if it will hold after the claims of violations on both sides.

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US President Donald Trump has again posted to Truth Social, this time assuring followers “Israel is not going to attack Iran”.

This is what the president posted, verbatim: “All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly ‘Plane Wave’ to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

US President Donald Trump boards Marine One on the south lawn of the White House.Credit: AP

The post followed reports that Trump had spoken with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the phone, warning Israel not to carry out a retaliation strike after Israel claimed Iran violated the ceasefire.

Trump, launching a tirade against both countries while speaking to reporters earlier, claimed both Israel and Iran violated the ceasefire.

Qatar’s prime minister spoke at a press conference a few minutes ago and said there would be “indirect” talks between Israel and Hamas in the next two days to try to reach a ceasefire, Reuters reports.

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said he hoped Israel would not take advantage of the ceasefire with Iran to keep attacking Gaza.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed regret in a phone call with Qatar’s Emir that Tehran’s target in retaliation for US strikes was a military base in Qatar, the prime minister said.

As we reported earlier, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign affairs ministry said his country’s strikes on the US military base Al Udeid had “nothing to do” with Qatar.

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As we’ve reported, US President Donald Trump unleashed a tirade against Israel and Iran, saying both countries “don’t know what the f--- they’re doing” before he boarded a helicopter to leave for the NATO summit in the Netherlands.

You can watch video of his comment below:

US President Donald Trump has unleashed a tirade against Israel and Iran before jetting off to the NATO summit in the Netherlands, telling reporters both countries “don’t know what the f--- they’re doing”.

“We basically have two countries that have both been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f--- they’re doing,” Trump said.

US President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One. Credit: AP

Minutes before, during the same address to media, Trump said: “Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I’ve never seen before. The biggest load that we’ve seen.

“When I say, ‘OK, now you have 12 hours’, you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on [Iran].”

The US president also lashed the media, particularly CNN, over their coverage of US military strikes on Iran.

“Iran will never rebuild [a nuclear weapon] … from there, absolutely not. That place is under rock. That place is demolished,” Trump said.

“But when I see CNN, all night long, they’re trying to say, ‘maybe it wasn’t really as demolished as we thought’ – it was demolished.”

CNN was among broadcasters that should apologise to the pilots behind the strikes, Trump said.

Aside from telling reporters both Israel and Iran violated the ceasefire, US President Donald Trump shared a post on Truth Social minutes ago, telling Israel: “Do not drop those bombs.”

This is his post, verbatim: “ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.”

US President Donald Trump speaking to reporters. Credit: AP